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New comment by ramblejam in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

ramblejam — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:21:49 +0000

Right but that's kind of meaningless, saying the nostr protocol never goes down, because the AT Protocol didn't go down in this bluesky case either. Protocols don't "go down". Stuff making use of protocols does.

New comment by ramblejam in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

ramblejam — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:19:36 +0000

until one day when a quantum computer comes along, then goodbye your control of your nostr identity in both the future and the past!

New comment by ramblejam in "The case against conversational interfaces"

ramblejam — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:57:31 +0000

> since users themselves don’t clearly know what they want.

Knowing what you want is, sadly, computationally irreducible.

New comment by ramblejam in "When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines"

ramblejam — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:43:26 +0000

Nice problem to have, though. Over on Nostr they're finding it a real struggle to get to the point where you're confident you won't miss replies to your own notes, let alone replies from other people in threads you haven't interacted with.

The current solution is for everyone to use the same few relays, which is basically a polite nod to Bluesky's architecture. The long-term solution is—well it involves a lot of relay hint dropping and a reliance on Japanese levels of acuity when it comes to picking up on hints (among clinets). But (a) it's proving extreme slow going and (b) it only aims to mitigate the "global as relates to me" problem.

New comment by ramblejam in "When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines"

ramblejam — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:12:03 +0000

True. In context though Bluesky can tweak the volume knob as and when they see fit, whereas for Mastodon it's stuck where it is.